18 JANUARY 2003, page 18

A Labour Of Loathing

Peter Hitchens on the worship of Philip Pullman, who has set out to destroy Narnia WHATEVER the atheist equivalent of canonisation is, they are doing it to the children's author......

Mind Your Language

THE vogue word of the year so far is extreme. It has been around for centuries, deriving from the Latin superlative extremus, outermost'. But for the English word recently a......